Appliance - Indian Laws - General

Appliance As per Oxford Dictionary , Appliance is A thing applied as a means to an end, apparatus . The dictionaries also explain the word as meaning instrument , device . Blackie s Judicial Dictionary that the word appliance is defined as: Appliance: Refers to machinery and all instruments used in operating it, and is to be distinguished from the word materials which includes everything of which anything is made. Things applied to or used as a means to an end, Robert v. City of Los Angeles61 P. 2nd 323, 330; 7 Cal. 2nd 477. An appliance is a mechanical thing, a device or apparatus, One Black Mule v. State204 Ala. 140; 85 So. 749. Encyclopaedia Americana gives the following meaning to the expression electrical appliance : Electrical appliance : A term given to many devices operated by electricity which are used in the home for domestic purposes. Such appliances may be divided into two general classes: those operated by heat, and those operated by power. In such appliances as the toaster, grill, flat-iron, waffle-iron, or oven, the electric current heats a wire or conductor to red heat, and the heat thus produced performs the function of the device...Where power is required to operate appliance such as washingmachine, vacuum-cleaner, refrigerator, fan, or water-pump, a small motor operated by electricity is used. Corpus Juris Secundum observes in Volume 6 at page 75 regarding the term appliance as under: Appliance has been defined or employed as meaning a mechanical thing, an apparatus or device; an instrumental means, aid, or appurtenance; a thing applied or used as a means to an end, either independently or subordinately; something applied or used directly. STAR RADIO ELECTRIC CO. VERSUS COMMISSIONER OF SALES TAX, GUJARAT - 1970 (11) TMI 89 - GUJARAT HIGH COURT